Hi! Can anyone help me to figure out if the following behavior is a bug or not?
Under SHR (both testing and unstable), drives and partitions not
listed in fstab are automounted using the "sync" option which is
*very* slow and possibly damaging to flash media.
Slowness: While attempting to untar a file onto a partition mounted
using the "sync" option, my card could only handle 4KBps. When I
removed the sync option, the data rate increased by a hundred fold to
400KBps.
Damage: Quote from the man page for mount (from Debian):
sync All I/O to the file system should be done synchronously. In case
of media with limited number of write cycles (e.g. some flash
drives) "sync" may cause life-cycle shortening.
I'd like to submit a bug report with a suggestion to remove the "-o
sync" option, but before I do, I wonder if anybody can tell me if
there is a valid reason to be using sync on all automounted drives.
--Ben
P.S. I believe this bug/feature is controlled by /etc/udev/scripts/mount.sh:
automount() {
! test -d "/media/$name" && mkdir -p "/media/$name"
if ! $MOUNT -t auto -o sync $DEVNAME "/media/$name"
then
#logger "mount.sh/automount" "$MOUNT -t auto $DEVNAME
\"/media/$name\" failed!"
rm_dir "/media/$name"
else
logger "mount.sh/automount" "Auto-mount of [/media/$name] successful"
touch "/tmp/.automount-$name"
fi
}